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If she is sitting, and he comes in, she should rise up.She should, say their sacred books, have no other god on earth than her husband.Him she should worship while he lives, and, when he dies, she should be burnt with him.…Cited from The Ladies' Vase, by An American Lady

And it is their sacred duty to see to it that the fire in their hands shall never die down.Cited from Jean-Christophe Journey's End, by Romain Rolland

No other means were taken to preserve it, beyond placing some brandy in the mouth and some on the hair; nor can one imagine for an instant that any other process would have been available either for Europeans or natives, considering the rude appliances at their disposal.The men kept watch day and night to see that no harm came to their sacred charge.Their huts surrounded the building, and had force been used to enter its strongly-barred door, the whole camp would have turned out in a moment.…Cited from Last Journals of David Livingstone, II (of 2), by David Livingstone

The first thing to be effected, however, in accomplishing either of these plans, was to obtain the consent of the Jewish authorities.They would probably object to giving up any copy of their sacred writings at all.…Cited from Cleopatra, by Jacob Abbott

However, the socialist dictatorship prohibited every religious institute in Hungary, and therefore the Salesians also had to abandon their work.Although they were officially dismissed, many of the former religious continued to live their sacred life.By the end of the communist regime, only 83 Salesians remained to begin working once again in the spirit of Don Bosco: to serve the poor and neglected youth.…

A great many boys are here educated by those readers of their sacred volume.All my attendants bowed their heads to the dust before the shrine of the saint, but they seemed especially indifferent to those of the royal family, which are all open to the sky.…Cited from Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official, by William Sleeman

Moreover the Djinang treasure and value their language very much.It can be seen in their sacred songs and with how they handle their children's language.…

Dr. Roberts made allowance for the monkeys, however.He had come to take away their sacred character, and nobody could expect them to like it.If you had asked Dr. Roberts what his difficulty was he would have shown you Sonny Sahib.…Cited from The Story Of Sonny Sahib,Mrs. Everard Cotes

Meanwhile their sacred vineyard lay open to attack upon every side.At Boston the royal governors went to King's Chapel and encouraged the use of the liturgy, while an inroad was made into Connecticut from New York.…Cited from The Emancipation of Massachusetts, by Brooks Adams

She had a face like the moon, and great round eyes; within her cloak, on the bosom of her white dress, she held a man-child.He, they passed their sacred word, lifted in his mother's arms and turned open-handed towards them.…Cited from Little Novels of Italy, by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Happy are those whose houses are so distinguished, as the vulgar Turks are perfectly persuaded that they will not be, that year, attacked either by fire or pestilence.I have the happiness of one of their sacred nests under my chamber-window.NOW I am talking of my chamber, I remember the description of the houses here will be as new to you, as any of the birds or beasts.…Cited from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e, by Montague

It has been known to be extremely violent in some cases.They also think of it as their sacred duty to protect recycling and force people to do so.…

It began so long ago that only the Motombo knows of its beginning which he has from the gods.Once the Pongo people owned all this land and only had their sacred places beyond the water.Then your forefathers came and fell on them, killing many, enslaving many and taking their women to wife.…Cited from Allan and the Holy Flower, H. Rider Haggard

Now sacred things receive their sacred character from God.Therefore they cannot be violated by man: and so a sacrilege would not seem to be the violation of a sacred thing.…Cited from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae), by Thomas Aquinas

His bluish-grey plumage is not very attractive, but he has an inner coating of black down, and if you could strip him of both of these jackets you would find him to be a very small bird after all.The Indians used to call him their sacred bird.They never kill one, no matter how hungry they may be.…Cited from Winter Adventures of Three Boys, by Egerton R. Young

In virtue of knowing God by obeying his son, they rose above the theories they had never looked in the face, and so had never recognized as evil.Many have arrived, in the natural progress of their sacred growth, at the point where they must abandon them.The man of whom I knew the most good gave them up gladly.…Cited from Unspoken Sermons, by George MacDonald

But no one dreams of claiming Byamee as a relation belonging to one clan; he is one apart and yet the father of all, even as Birrahgnooloo is mother of all and not related to any one clan; Cunnumbeillee, his other wife, had only one totem.Certainly woman is given a high place in their sacred lore.The chief wife of Byamee, Birrahgnooloo, is claimed as the mother of all, for she, like him, had a totem for each part of her body; no one totem can claim her, but all do.…Cited from The Euahlayi Tribe, Langloh Parker

It was to be kept upon the fifteenth day of the first month, to last seven days, and to begin, as all their festivals began, the evening before at the going down of the sun.The reader will attend to the distinction just stated -- the beginning and end of their sacred days.The celebration of the ordinary Sabbath, indeed, commenced on the evening of Friday, and terminated at the going down of the sun on Saturday.…Cited from Palestine or the Holy Land, by Michael Russell

Their sacred fire was treated, in Imperial times, as the emperor's household fire.The Vestals were put in charge of keeping safe the wills and testaments of various people such as Caesar and Mark Antony.…

On the other hand, God warned them by the mouth of Moses that if they forgot the Lord God, and went and worshipped the things round them, men or beasts, or sun and moon and stars, then poverty, misery, and ruin of every kind would surely fall upon them.And that this last was no empty threat is proved by the plain facts of their sacred history.For they DID forget God, and worshipped Baalim, the sun, moon, and stars; and ruin of every kind DID come upon them, till they were carried away captive to Babylon.…Cited from The Gospel of the Pentateuch, by Charles Kingsley